Tag: Media
Read All About It in the Sunday Papers-Fathers Day Edition
And by fathers, the Beast Who Slumbers emphatically does not mean L. Ron Hubbard, the ‘Father’ of Scientology. Today’s lead story is a chilling glimpse inside the full-fledged cult of Scientology as told by some of the cult’s former leaders themselves. And it’s only the first of a three-parter. Major ‘bulo Tip of the Sombrero […]
America’s Best Blogger Fired by Washington Post
The right-wing meme about the Lib’rul Media? Uh, not so much. The Washington Post, whose editorial page has been moving further and further to the right, has fired Dan Froomkin, the best bleeping blogger in America, whose White House Watch was must-reading during the Bush years and even more so during the early months of […]
Read All About It In the Sunday Papers-June 14 Edition
Lead Story: Al Jazeera: Post-Election Rioting in Tehran Recommended not just for the lead story, but also for the linked stories. Though it’s not what ‘bulo wants to believe, it appears at least possible that Ahmadinejad won fair and square: Commenting on the dispute, Mehran Kamrava, director of the centre for international and regional studies […]
Read All About It In the Sunday Papers-June 7, 2009
Lead Story-The (UK) Independent: How the Freedom of Information Act and Investigative Journalism Brought Down the British Government And, yes, this is precisely how El Somnambulo hopes that Delaware journalists will use their new access once HB 1 becomes law: Richard Thomas, the Information Commissioner, in his first interview since the staggering scale of the […]
Cris Barrish’s Story on Lonnie George is Must-Reading
Anyone who truly wants to understand the Delaware Way simply must read Cris Barrish’s superb piece on Orlando J. George, Jr. from Sunday’s News-Journal. Lonnie George is an exceedingly brilliant and accomplished person. That is not the issue. However, like Orson Welles, he is a man of gargantuan appetites, and he has demonstrated his need (and […]
Read All About It in the Sunday Papers-May 31, 2009
‘Bulo apologizes to his fan(s) for the relative lateness of this post. He was at the Arden Gild Hall last night, and comfortably blended in with those granola grannies while watching Marcia Ball and scorching opener, The Skyla Burrell Band, tear the roof off the place. So, he’s posting this and returning to Dreamland. LEAD STORY: […]
Read All About It In The Sunday Papers-May 24 Edition
LEAD STORY: Boston Globe: Bangor Volunteers Demonstrate the Ideal Way to Honor Memorial Day Thank you to all of those who paid the ultimate sacrifice. Thank you to all of those who have served our country. Thank you to those who are serving our country today. Thank you to your families who sacrifice every day […]
‘Moderate’ Mike Castle Votes to Investigate Nancy Pelosi
After eight years of idly sitting by while Dubya, Cheney and the Rethugs shredded the Constitution, Mike “I Like Puppies and Kids” Castle has returned to his days as a crusader by voting for an investigation into what the CIA may or may not have said to Nancy Pelosi. The Greenville gentleman hasn’t been this […]
Secret Government in Session-Day 2
The News-Journal is all over Joint Finance Committee secrecy this year: DOVER — The budget-writing Joint Finance Committee spent Tuesday locked in closed-door session and adjourned for the day without taking any formal action. …The 12-member JFC, made up of House and Senate members, goes into closed-door “orientation” and then opens the doors to announce […]
Attention, You’se Rat Bastids at Comcast…
Uh, has anyone checked out their Comcast channels today? If you have digital cable on all your sets, you will not be affected. However, if you don’t have the digital cable or, in the case of Casa di Somnambulo, you have the big screen in the living room with the digital cable, and the other […]
Secret Government in Session in Dover
Nancy Cook and the Joint Finance Committee began its budget markup yesterday, free, for hopefully the last time, from the disinfectant of sunshine. Virtually all of it took place behind closed doors, according to the News-Journal’s J. L. Miller. Allegedly an ‘Orientation’ session, as if 12 veteran legislators with decades of JFC experience required any […]
Liberal Blogger Gets Big-Time Gig
Congrats to Ezra Klein, whose ‘Tapped’ blog over at The American Prospect has been ‘bulo must-reading for some time now. He will now write for the Washington Post. The Beast Who Slumbers wants to share these inspirational words from Klein’s farewell post. Because it demonstrates the potential and power of the blogosphere: But we’ve also learned […]
Question(s) of the Day
Why is the press focusing more on what Nancy Pelosi might or might not have been briefed on than on what war criminals Cheney, Bush, and their malodorous malefactors might or might not have done when it comes to torture? And, what will it take for the press to focus on what now appear to […]
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